Overshoe-holder.



No. 841,282. PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907. W. H. TILLSQN.

OVERSHOE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19, 1906.

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No. 841,282. PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907. W. H. TILLSON.

OVERSHOE HOLDER.

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WILLIAM H. TILLSON, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

OVERSHOE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 15, 1907.

Application filed January 19I 1906. SerialNo- 296,888.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. TILLsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful overshoe-Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to means for preventing overshoes slippin at theheel, and has for its object to embo y the invention in the nature of anattachment capable of being readily a plied and removed and arranged toavoid scratching or injuring ofthe heel of the shoe, particularly whenengaging and disengaging the'bail of the device with respect to theshoe.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, aswill be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanyingdrawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it beingunderstood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor detailsmay be made within the sco e of the claims without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawin s, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of thepresent invention, a portion of an overshoe being shown in dotted lines.Fig. 2 is an elevation of the device before being applied to anovershoe. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are views similar to Fig. 2, showingmodifications'of the device. Figs. 6 to 11, inclusive, show modifiedarrangements of the bail and attaching clips.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of thefigures of the drawin s.

Each of 516 illustrated forms of the present invention includes aplate-metal body 1, having suitable proportionssay about six At each endof the body there is a pair of spaced clips 2 and 3, which are bent overupon the outer side of the body from the upper edge thereof so as toembrace the upper edge of the heel portion of an overshoe, asillustrated in Fig. 1, between the outer sides of the clips and the bodyof the holder. Below the upper edge of the body and opposite theinterval between each pair of clips there is a rivet 4, preferably inthe nature of an eyelet, said rivet constituting a pivotal support forone end of a bail, which is carried by the body and designed to beengaged across the upper portion of the counter of a shoe.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings the bail 5 is a wire and prior to beingapplied to a shoe is straight and disposed above and in substantialparallelism with the upper edge of the body, its ends being bentdownwardly to form arms 6, which terminate in eyes 7 pivotally embracingthe respective rivets or pivot-pins upon the exterior of the body 1.When put on the market, the body of the device is straightened out, asin Fig. 2, for convenience in storage and trans ortation, and when it isplaced in use it is ent by hand into substantial U shape, so as toapproximate the shape of the heel portion of an overshoe to which it isapplied by having the body fit within the overshoe with the clipsembracing the upper edge thereof. When applied, the device assumes theposition shown'in Fig. 1, and when the bail is swung up over the counterof a shoe the heel of the overshoe is held against the heel of the shoe,

and thereby prevented from slip ping thereon.

As the normal tendency of the body is to straighten out, the attachmenttends to spread the heel of the overshoe when the bail is down, therebyfacilitating th'e drawing of the heel portion of the overshoe upon theheel of the shoe. Upon swinging the bail upwardly and over the counterof the shoe the arms 6 work across the exterior of the body in thenature of cams, and thereby draw inwardly the ends of the body, whichtends to cause the heel of the overshoe to snugly embrace the heel ofthe shoe, and thereby produce a snug fit of the overshoe. By having thepivotal connection between the bailand the body upon the exterior of thelatter the counter of the shoe is not subjected to any wearing actionupon the part of the pivotal terminals of the bail when said bail isbeing moved into and out of engagement with a shoe.

In order that the present device may be useful in connection withdiiferentstyles-and sizes of overshoes, I have made slight modificationsin the device, such as in Fig.' 3, wherein the upper edge portion of thebody is cut down a suitable distance between each pair of clips 2 and 3,as shown at 8, so as to bring the pivotal connection 4 between the bailand the body about midway between the top and bottom edges thereof. Withthis arrangement the bail 5 is not straight, but is inclined downwardlyfrom its middle and passes across the front or inner sides of the clips3 and thence outwardly through the cut-away portions 8 to the exteriorof the body. The embodiment shown in Fig. 4 differs from that shown inFig. 3 by having the up- 5 per edge portion of the body cut down between the clips 3, as shown at 9, so as to be in alinement with thebottoms of the notches 8, which renders the body more flexible for usein connection with overshoes which are made of thin or light-weightmaterial.

As embodied in Fig. 5 the body of the de vice is substantially the sameas in Fig. 4, but'instead of a wire the'bail 10 is formed of platemetal. and has hook-shaped clips 11 I 5 bent from its upper edge betweenthe clips 3,

so as to engage over the top of the overshoe whenthe bail is depressed.

Instead ofhaving the terminals of the bail pivoted between the ears 2and. 3, as in Figs.

21to 5, inclusive,.they may be pivoted betweenthe clips 3, as shown inFig. 6, the bail 5 of course being proportionately shorter than the bail5.

In Fig. 7 I-have shown a flat bail 10", simi- 2 5 lar=-to the bail 10and pivoted to the body of the, device between the ears 3.

Under some circumstances it may not be desirable to have two clips ateach end of the body, wherefore I'propose to employ the ar- 0 rangementshown inFig. 8, wherein there is provided-a terminal'clip 2 at each endof the body and an intermediate clip 3* midway between the two clips 2,the bail 5 passing across the front of the clip 3. In Fig. 9 the clipsare shorter than in. Fig. 8 and the bail extends across the top of theintermediate- The arrangement shown inFig. 10 is substantially thatshown in Fig. 3, with the addition of the intermediate clip- 3 upon thebody. 7

The flat bail 10 may be employed in the same relation as the bail 5 inFig. 10, as clearly shown-in Fig. 11.

Having thus described the invention, what the bail is swung outward forengagement across the counter of a shoe.

In testimony that I claim the foregoingas my own I have hereto aflixedmysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. TILLSON. 'Witnesses:

GERHARD G. ARnNDs, HENRY DAMHORST.

